Score: 8

"Heh..."

submission: Knoxs "The Matrix" 5

date: October 22, 2003

I was about to bash your movie when I saw that it was just a video import with MX, but then I watched it and saw that it was friggen hilarious. Good dubbing and good way to come up with humor that doesn't all have to be sex/potty humor. I give you a 5, even though that hurts me getting in the Top 5 today :) Now back to work on my game.

Score: 4

"The most overrated thing on the Internet"

submission: Broken Saints 24 Trailer

date: June 27, 2003

Where's the animation?

Broken Saints is definitely the most overrated Flash series, period. There is no animation whatsoever - it's all (well done) transitions between still images. And being stills, the art is not nearly strong enough to justify the lack of animation - there are quite a few ANIMATED Flash movies with that level of art (ignoring the coloring styles).

What I must commend Broken Saints on, however, is the presentation and marketing. TYhe presentation makes you THINK that it's something special, and it has worked brilliantly as you can see with all of the media coverage that the series has gotten. Brilliant marketing, but no substance.

Finally, I have a problem watching the "episodes" - they move much, much too slow. I read rather fast, and it feels like it's timed for people with a second grade reading level. I'll read something and have to wait 1 - 2 minutes for the next panel to appear. The presentation makes everything ridiculously boring.

Score: 6

"At least you used less gradients."

submission: Lords of Battle

date: June 16, 2003

I see you've finally calmed down on your gradients. Now if you could just work on your aesthetics. And anatomy. And the priciples of animation. It might result in "more movement," but motion tweening many of the things you did and normally do (ie. running, walking, breathing) is definitely -not- the answer. You want to make Flash NOT look like Flash, and to do that, you need to stray from tweening. It's fine for pans and small movements - bad for trying to recreate human motion.

Also, pull out an anatomy book and draw life. And work on color theory a bit. It's an improvement looks-wise over your ninja movie - but stuff still needs to be tightened up.

Score: 6

"Don't let the kids overhype your movie, needs work"

submission: .HELLBOY.

date: April 21, 2003

You show a lot of promise, especially directorially. This animation has fantastic direction overall, and good choice of shots.

However, where it can use work is the actual artwork and animation. While your movie may be rated highly, that is also due to it being rated by a bunch of little kids that don't know the first thing about animation and art, and just like that your movie had lots of blood and naked women. Please don't let their overinflated viewpoints cause you to think that you don't have room for improvement.

Besides your facial anatomy, which needs to be worked upon a bit, you also need to button up your animation. Motion tweening limbs, especially for walking/running is a deadly "no no," it looks VERY unnatural, and you'd never, ever see a professional animator do that. The ultimate goal should be the perfect mixture of tweening and frame by frame - and you have a good start - just a lot to work on.

While your direction and shots are good, your timing is a bit off - try to clean that up as well.

To sum it up, you have potential. Button up your artwork, stop relying on the tweening for anything besides "sliding" and quick joint movements, and stop appealing to the lowest common denominator, and you could really becomes a great artist.

Score: 10

"So much nostalgia - that will be wasted on most"

submission: Domo-Kun Angry Smashfest!

date: December 16, 2002

Ah, yes. Golden Axe. Rocket Knight. Altered Beast. Streets of Rage music. Etc. etc. etc. This game is a nostalgic dream come true for us Gen X-ers. However, much of it will be lost on many of those born after 1980, sadly.

Score: 7

"These are the youngins."

submission: Evilzug - ROCKSTAR

date: October 17, 2002

Remember, Zug, the people voting on this are the little kids who think that Xbox is the "kewlist" system because the "graphics are the tightest." It's good to see that you did something professional - it's too bad that most of the little kids that watch our stuff don't have an ounce of culture in them - they can't see past "flashy lights" and recognize style and timing. I hope I'm dead before they take over.

Score: 9

"Great game."

submission: Hentai ~ SimGirls (beta)

date: April 19, 2002

I have an overall rating of 4.00 and still didn't get movie of the day? Oh, this is why. I expected to hate this game, but I was almost immediately addicted and played completely through. I beat it in 69 days, since I spent the big bucks on her.

This game is really good. You deserve the movie of the day honors.

Score: 3

"Uh..."

submission: Flasher

date: March 3, 2002

Right. A cgi chick shows boobs (and was this done in poser?). Not only that, but the boobs are shaped wrong - it looks like she has implants. If this scores over a 3, I'm never going to this site again.

Score: 7

"Nice graphics and sound, not much substance."

submission: Toonslayer

date: February 25, 2002

This may appeal to the average Newgrounds fan because of the blood/violence/anti-pop message, but then again, that crappy Max Payne movie is #2, so what do they know? :)

The nice timing and animation doesn't make up for the lack of substance. The movie just amounts to some guy with an axe chopping up a Pikachu ripoff. That's it. Nothing else there.

This is the equivalent of those "death" stick movies that pop up 80 times a day on the portal, only with better skills behind it. You should devote your time to creating something with some substance - it could be great.

Score: 5

"Tetris, but worse."

submission: topless tetris

date: February 23, 2002

First of all, that naked woman is stupid and completely pointless. There's no reason for her to be there, and her being there means that you can't even play the game anywhere. Do you really have to sink that low in order to get support?

Secondly, that eraser block is annoying and completely messes up my strategy. I'm so good in Tetris that the high score on my PC goes into the negatives. That said, this was a pretty accurate conversion, but the additions mess it up.

Why play this when a better version is easily attainable? Nice try, I guess.